Here's a question I've been sitting with lately: if building software keeps getting easier — and it clearly is — then what exactly are we building our businesses on? https://share.transistor.fm/s/44d1e8cb Because conversations about the quality of vibe-coded or AI-engineered software aside, it is obvious that with LLM-originated tooling, writing complex software has become significantly easier. … Continue reading Data Is the Only Moat
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Follow Your Passion (But Not Like That)
A while ago, I asked my Twitter friends to tell me what the most annoying and most infuriating piece of entrepreneurial advice is that they ever received. And overwhelmingly, "follow your passion" stood out as the one that frustrated them most. I've seen this particular piece of advice being given a lot by people who … Continue reading Follow Your Passion (But Not Like That)
The Best Tech Stack in the Age of AI
A couple of years ago, I tweeted that “the best tech stack is the one you already know.” To this day, this is one of my most resonating tweets. People keep bringing it back, and founders who've been around for a while seem to particularly agree with it. They've gone through the learning experience of … Continue reading The Best Tech Stack in the Age of AI
Handling Multiple ICPs as a Solo Founder
Let's talk about handling multiple ICPs as a solo founder. This is something I've been wrestling with at Podscan, and I know many of you face the same challenge: you're building a product that could serve two, three, maybe even five different ideal customer profiles. And you're trying to figure out how to keep them … Continue reading Handling Multiple ICPs as a Solo Founder
One Year of Podscan: Reflecting on Tech & Business Decisions
So Podscan itself is doing pretty well. It has grown from an experiment into something substantial. It's profitable now and has customers of all sorts that I didn't even expect to serve in the beginning. With every week, I shift closer to the perfect messaging, reaching the right people at the right time. https://share.transistor.fm/s/c0143ddd What … Continue reading One Year of Podscan: Reflecting on Tech & Business Decisions
Think with AI, Do with People
Earlier this week, I read a blog post by Bethany Crystal about how ChatGPT saved her life. She had developed some symptoms she couldn't place and had blood work done, and the results were available to her but her physician hadn't looked into them, so she brainstormed with ChatGPT about what the outstanding and non-regular … Continue reading Think with AI, Do with People
Indie Hacking & the Singularity
A few days ago, over dinner, I found myself deep in conversation about the technological singularity. While that "happy moment" of humanity becoming a machine-augmented brain collective (think Star Trek's Borg) might still be years or decades away, there's something more immediate that keeps me up at night: the unprecedented acceleration of technological advancement and … Continue reading Indie Hacking & the Singularity
Breaking my Own Rules
As Podscan inches closer to profitability, I've come to an interesting realization: what got me here won't get me there. Unlike my previous ventures—books, courses, and productized services—I can no longer rely solely on my personal brand and podcast appearances to generate sufficient leads. While this approach helped jumpstart the business over the past six … Continue reading Breaking my Own Rules
Podscan’s Dream Customer (Acquisition) Strategy
A few months ago, I started thinking about preparing data on Podscan for people who would be ideal customers for what the product currently is — a social listening tool. The easiest approach seemed straightforward: get the names of brands and influential people I'd want as customers and start tracking them. And over the last … Continue reading Podscan’s Dream Customer (Acquisition) Strategy
Running Lean at Scale
Yesterday, I shrunk the size of my production database from four terabytes to just under one terabyte. Still ginormous, but very impactful for Podscan, in several ways. Something interesting happened last weekend that made me realize I needed to change how I think about scale. While checking my monitoring dashboards, I noticed a pattern in … Continue reading Running Lean at Scale